Lebron, Kobe, and Durant are probably the only three guys that would have even made the 92 team.

Scottie Pippen was announces the Domican Warm up game and said they would have beaten them by 25.

The only advantage the 12 team has is speed at teh Point guard position. But if they get they run into Barkley, K Malone, Patrick Ewing, and David Robinson.

Defrensivly the 92 team is way better.

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Yeah, even if those 3 did make it, it would be close. Durant or Barkley for the starting spot for instance. Pippen and James would be tight too, although I agree you'd probably have to give it to James.

It's a great team you have for 2012, i'm lucky to see them playing together here in England. The '92 team would win more often than not for sure.

The only area 2012 is better at is 3pt shooting. Even then the '92 squad could penetrate, dish out, and play more cohesively. They didn't need to shoot the 3 ball as much.

Frontcourt is a complete blowout for '92. Robinson/Ewing/Barkley/Malone/Pippen with Bird coming off for a spell would be too much for this '12 squad. Backcourt is a little more competitive, but Jordan/Magic/Drexler/Stockton with Pippen and Mullin sliding to the 2 would win out.

Laettner was just filler as '92 was already 2 HOF'ers deep at center. IMO '92 should have added Isiah Thomas/Joe Dumars and Shaq. Too bad Jordan threatened not to play if Thomas was selected. Sheesh...

Jordan/Magic/Drexler/Stockton with Pippen and Mullin sliding to the 2 would win out.

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Yup. Magic may not be able to consistently stay in front of CP3, but CP3 would absolutely not be able to guard a much taller Magic. A 1992 Prime Jordan vs. 2012 Kobe is not going to be much of a contest either. I don't even think the 2012 team would be able to compete against the Dream Team's bench

Is it possible to ever have a "healthy" Dwight?
He has no jump shot. He barely can make a 9 footer. He needs to pound, push, shove, then outjump a smaller man to score. He's like a small Shaq. Even Blake has a 3 pointer.

I think a lot of that was because they had guys playing their natural positions. They brought point guards in to play point guards, centers to play centers, small forwards to play small forwards, etc.

2012 is loaded with athleticism but zero size except for Tyson Chandler. So instead of bringing Kobe Byrant to play shooting guard, he's going to have to play some small forward. Kevin Durant will probably have to play shooting guard, small forward, and power forward. And LeBron, you're just going to have to play all 5 positions.

So the 1992 Dream Team had guys doing what they're accustomed to doing in their whole career.

A healthy Dwight is better than Ewing and Robinson near/in their primes?

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Maybe, if he had 1/2 to 2/3 of Olajuwon's skills. Right now, he and Griffin are all athleticism. That doesn't age well. The NBA has gotten more athletic but I'd say the skill level has actually decreased.

Hakeem Olajuwon was just tremendous on both ends of the floor. I watched so many of his games in the 1980's and on defense he could literally take over games and he could do it on the offensive end too. He was incredibly skilled as well as very athletic. He was extremely fast and quick as well. He's the all time shot block leader.

Maybe, if he had 1/2 to 2/3 of Olajuwon's skills. Right now, he and Griffin are all athleticism. That doesn't age well. The NBA has gotten more athletic but I'd say the skill level has actually decreased.

Hakeem Olajuwon was just tremendous on both ends of the floor. I watched so many of his games in the 1980's and on defense he could literally take over games and he could do it on the offensive end too. He was incredibly skilled as well as very athletic. He was extremely fast and quick as well. He's the all time shot block leader.

Maybe, if he had 1/2 to 2/3 of Olajuwon's skills. Right now, he and Griffin are all athleticism. That doesn't age well. The NBA has gotten more athletic but I'd say the skill level has actually decreased.

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FYI, I wasn't saying that he was (if you noticed the question mark). That was directed at Ronaldo for saying that he was.

Well it's true that the 1992 team won every game by a landslide, but large part was due to the international competition was very weak 20 years ago. Other nations have vastly improved over the decades, many players are so good they are competing in the NBA. While I believe the 1992 team is > than 2012, you can't use the level of domination of the 1992 team going against the 2012 team.

Well it's true that the 1992 team won every game by a landslide, but large part was due to the international competition was very weak 20 years ago. Other nations have vastly improved over the decades, many players are so good they are competing in the NBA. While I believe the 1992 team is > than 2012, you can't use the level of domination of the 1992 team going against the 2012 team.

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Agreed, I was watching the documentary on NBA TV about The Dream Team. They said something about the 1992 Dream Team taught the world how to play basketball.

If yougoslavia didnt implode the whole original team could have beaten the dream teamWho btw lost to a college team before the olympics

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That's only part of the story.

The scrimmage lost to the college players was a fix, part of Coach Chuck Daly’s plan to demonstrate to a team loaded with 11 future basketball Hall of Famers that they could lose in international competition.

“He threw the game,” Mike Krzyzewski, who assisted Daly, along with Wilkens and P. J. Carlesimo, said in the documentary. Daly calmly told Krzyzewski during the scrimmage, “We’re all right.”

(In 2008, Krzyzewski made similar remarks when he said, “Chuck wanted them to lose.”)

In the documentary, he said: “If you look at how much Jordan played and how he subbed the guys in, not picking up, not making any adjustments; he knew what he was doing.”

Asked why Daly did not confide his intentions to his assistants, Krzyzewski said: “We probably would have screwed it up.”

Before the news media filed in after the scrimmage, Daly ordered that the result be banished from the scoreboard. At their next, and final, scrimmage, the Dream Team trounced the collegians.